No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller. . . whose … - Theodore Zeldin

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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and round bored wells here and there in favored races and places, but He flows in grand undivided currents, shoreless and boundless over creeds and forms and all kinds of civilizations and peoples and beasts, saturating all and fountainizing all.

Theodore Zeldin

No history of the world can be complete which does not mention Mary Helen Keller. . . whose overcoming of her blindness and deafness were arguably victories more important than those of Alexander the Great, because they have implications still for every living person.

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The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

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Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

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When will we make the same breakthroughs in the way we treat each other as we have made in technology?

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Art is, nowadays, our new religion and museums are our cathedrals.

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The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

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